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I have just started experiencing this issue too and my configuration is as follows

My setup previously was

Asus P5Q-E with Intel set to RAID

1 x OCZ vertex 2 60 Gb drive

3 x Western Digital Black 500GB drives in RAID 0.

I never noticed any sort of freezing with this configuration

I recently changed my drives over to

Asus P5Q-E with Intel set to RAID

1 x OCZ vertex 2 60 Gb drive

2 x Western Digital Black 500GB drives in RAID 1

2 x Samsung F3 1 TB drives in RAID 1

I now get the freezing and stuttering effect every 20 seconds in Windows and not just aida. I have a feeling this maybe the Samsung drives as I notice a slight pause during the BIOS boot sequence when it does the SMART detection on them as well.

Any chance of a beta version which disables the polling of the data instead of just increasing the poll time as it still annoying when it occurs and is quite noticeable for me?

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Then I'm afraid we cannot do more to avoid the freezes We've done extensive tests in the past 2 weeks, and apparently the issue does not come up with Version 8 of Intel RAID drivers, but it does come up on certain configurations with Version 10 of Intel RAID drivers. The actual slowdown seems to be occuring inside Intel RAID drivers, so we hope Intel will eventually fix that and make us all happy

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Is there a way to disable AIDA64 from reading the RAID hard drive sensor values. In 1.60 even if I uncheck low-level smart operations (and reboot) it still polls the temperature sensors on the schedule set under hardware monitoring (3600 seconds for me). This is fairly annoying when watching movies, playing games (things that are a longer than an hour) as I notice the lag....

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Is there a way to disable AIDA64 from reading the RAID hard drive sensor values. In 1.60 even if I uncheck low-level smart operations (and reboot) it still polls the temperature sensors on the schedule set under hardware monitoring (3600 seconds for me). This is fairly annoying when watching movies, playing games (things that are a longer than an hour) as I notice the lag....

We've fixed the issue about SMART stability option not affecting the RAID SMART layer. We've also implemented a new, separate option to let you disable only the RAID SMART functions. That way, you can have SMART readout for non-RAID drives, and only disable the SMART readout for RAID array member drives.

Make sure to upgrade to the latest beta version of AIDA64 Extreme Edition available at:

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Good to hear this issue is solved in the latest beta, I thought I'd add a post from a separate thread just for posterity.

I found this thread by googling the same issue.

I can confirm this same problem is occuring on Windows 7 64-bit with AIDA 1.60.1300, I get mouse lag every 10 seconds or so which only occurs if AIDA is running. I've tried disabling low-level SMART operations as suggested, but the issue persisted. I have no external drives connected, no special sensor devices attached, and no other hardware monitoring software running in the background - unless you count the Intel RST tools.

Any help would be appreciated, I love AIDA64 to bits but this is slowly driving me nuts.

EDIT: Just did some testing and narrowed down the issue to the 'Disk Temperature Polling' interval, got all excited that I'd found the problem, and then found this thread

Oh well at least you guys know about it. For reference, my setup involves 4 Samsung Spinpoint 1TB drives in an intel RST RAID, using the latest RST drivers.